Saturday, February 28, 2015

Michael R.
Bloomberg is a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, Emma Bloomberg’s
father, was a donor for the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.

Note:
Emma Bloomberg
is Michael R. Bloomberg’s daughter,
and was the senior planning officer for the Robin Hood Foundation.

The ongoing House battle over funding the Department of
Homeland Security is angering Republican senators, who say it's time to move on
to other issues on the legislative calendar.

"I just think we ought to move on to other
things," said Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, according
to The Hill. "I'm not sure how it helps for the American people to have
the perception that Republicans in the Senate and Republicans in the House are
at odds with each other. We have a lot of initiatives I think we could show the
American people we can work together on."

Senators are pointing out that it's time to move away from
the battle and focus on other vital issues, including trade legislation,
regulatory and tax reform, and the budget.

However, the ongoing fight, being waged in an effort to
block President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, has brought the
other issues to a virtual halt, with the threat of the Homeland Security
department facing a shutdown pushing back on other GOP agenda items.

Late Friday, Congress
passed a one-week stopgap bill in an effort to avert the shutdown,
with leaders in both parties pushing back against House conservatives who were
angry that the budget measure left Obama's plan alone.

The temporary funding measure was passed by a bipartisan vote of 357-60 in the
House just a little past an hour after the also-Republican-controlled Senate
approved the Homeland Security funding measure without even the need for a roll
call vote.

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans say it's time to move on from the battle over
Obama's executive action, after a federal court ruling in Texas that declared
it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The Obama administration is
fighting the ruling, but Senate Republicans believe the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals will uphold the lower court's decision.

"Why don’t we just look at the court decision in Texas, declare victory
and move on?" said Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake.

And Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., agreed that "when the judge ruled, that
was the way I wanted to end it."

But House conservatives are holding out for a bicameral conference to allow the
House and Senate to decide on a compromise that would keep funding Homeland
Security while repealing some of Obama's executive order.

However, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid ruled that out on Thursday, and
many Senate Republicans call those hopes misguided.

"What's frustrating is that the House guys think any of
the Democrats over here are under pressure to vote or cloture. They're in their
own little bubble, it's myopic," said a Senate Republican, who spoke to
The Hill permitted on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has
already tried four times to start debate on a House DHS funding bill that
included the disputed immigration riders, but Democrats would only allow
legislation to move forward when McConnell replaced it with a clean funding
bill.

McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, have not been in
close communication, The Hill reports, with Boehner saying on Wednesday that he
and McConnell have not spoken in two weeks.

Senate Republicans who are up against tough reelection battles in 2016 have
also been pressing the House to accept the clean funding bill, which would
extend DHS funding through September.

"I think the feeling of most people is this is the
fight that we should have not fought," said vulnerable Republican
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk. "We really, as a governing party, we've got to
fund DHS and say to the House, 'Here’s a straw so you can suck it up.'"

Oklahoma GOP Rep. Tom Cole noted that the battle isn't just
between political parties, but also the House and Senate.
"I think the decisive arena is the courts," he said. "I think
this is about holding our own ground and it's also a message to the
Senate."

That message is that "you really do have to vote on things and you really
do have to go to conference," Cole said. "You’re not going to just
drop something on us the last day and run out of town."

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain

John S. McCain III
is an AZ congressional delegation
senator, married to Cindy Hensley McCain,
and his daughter is Meghan McCain.

Sam on Bob Harden Show

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Rev. Sam Sewell, is Director of Best Self USA, a Pastoral Psychotherapist, serves on the faculty of Naples Community Hospital as an instructor for Clinical Pastoral Education, President of the Theological Center in Naples, a member of Mensa where he serves as Gifted Youth Coordinator, a U.S. Navy Veteran, and a Member of the Association For Intelligence Officers. He is a frequent commentator on mental health and religious issues.His award winning research on family issues is published in several languages. Member of Sigma Delta Chi Honor Society

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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."- St. Augustine

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows." -

William James

"This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men." --Ronald Reagan

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."-- Edward Abbey

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."John Stuart Mill

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~~George Washington

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Conservatives are enemies of the government. Liberals are enemies of the nation because they are not enemies of the government."Aristotle the Hun

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"Albert Einstein

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." ANON

"That government is best which governs least."Thomas Paine

“A nation that substitutes emotion and empathy for rational thought will eventually digress into the Dark Ages,”Congressman Steve King (R-IA),

INTEGRITY: The highest courage is to dare to be ourself in the face of adversity. Choosing ethics over convenience and truth over popularity means there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven for good intentions yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.~ C. S. Lewis

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." ANON

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